holly

chaotic bisexual she/her https://archiveofourown.org/works/33026593/chapters/81976867

[lunatih]

Say hi to Quentin Brinston from the beautiful, the wonderful, the amazing Curious Minds by @allthegoodusernamesaretakenagain

[chromanovaa]

I am actually speechless right now!!!! I’ve never had anyone do a fan art of my work and I actually can’t believe this. @lunatih, words cannot express how amazing and touching this is! Your artwork is brilliant, I love the style and this recreation of my character is very accurate to how I picture him! Seeing my character drawn like this is crazy!! Thank you so much!!!

And yes, my name is Holly!! :)

[chromanovaa]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

i have risen from the dead 

[silly-little-pal]

[pseudophan]

this shit just got so real i feel faint

[chromanovaa]

DID YOU EVEN KISS THE BRICK BEFORE YOU THREW IT!?!?! That chapter just tore my heart out! WE MET HIS DAD? ARN? SO SAD. The way he said ‘he’s my son but their hero’ actually cut me deep like WHAT. And his message to Link. Tears. Streaming.

THE MASTER SWORD was such a good chapter I can’t. Quentin knowing what to do because of Arn. Zigi the korok? The fight scene? You always say you’re not good at action but you’re so good! I loved so much that Quentin told Link he loved him just then. The ultimate way he could support him is to love him. SO GOOD.

IM SO GLAD YOU LIKED IT KATIE! I also think it’s sad that Link always has such little family in most of the games - so I really wanted to explore that idea that he’s someone’s son as much as it was natural to do so.

Thank you though. I genuinely do hate writing action, I overthink it and never like how it turns out but I am glad you liked it even if I don’t particularly. I did like writing the bit with Link getting the sword though. I always knew he would say I love you then. Quentin has known and knows he’s loves Link for a while now - it’s not exactly news that he does. But Quentin has always had a hard time saying it. He has that fear of people leaving and he worries if his love is enough, so saying it is a lot for him. But he knew in that moment, as you said, he best way he could support him was telling him he was loved.

[chromanovaa]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

It only took 76 chapters folks (love this chapter but boy did it take it out of me)

[chromanovaa]

new chapter let’s go 

[chromanovaa]

Happy 4 years to The Curious Minds! Happy creation day Quentin!!!!

[chromanovaa]

sometimes when i watch age of calamity cutscenes i genuinely forget quentin will not be in them. what do you mean quink isn’t canon?

also tomorrow will mark four years of the curious minds…that’s actually mental.

[chromanovaa]

a month without uploading she comes back with a tag 

(please tell me you get the reference?) 

[what-even-is-thiss]

It will get cold again eventually. The summer will not last forever. I’m not doomed to live in this unbearable heat for all eternity. <- said while gripping the countertop so hard that the tile is starting to crack

[carrymelikeimcute]

Cradling my jumpers in my arms: soon my pet....soon....

[chromanovaa]

sometimes i really deep the meal ‘toad the hole’ and how there are no toads and usually more than one hole

[chromanovaa]

this is a 1am thought if you couldn’t tell

[chromanovaa]

sometimes i really deep the meal ‘toad the hole’ and how there are no toads and usually more than one hole

[chromanovaa]

doing my monthly reread and it’s only just clicked that quink have their first kiss at the same stable link properly realised his feelings for quentin. iconic. life changing information. i need to know was that always going to happen or did it just come to you as you were writing it?

Hahaha so glad you've pointed that out!!!

So this was definitely not always the case - their first kiss has changed so much from when I first started writing. My first image of their first kiss was going to be at the peak of Satori Mountain. There was literally no reason for this other than it was pretty, and I think I tried to foreshadow it once, maybe, in a very early chapter (can't remember if I ever included it or not) but when I started thinking logistically, it just didn't work. As pretty as it would have been.

Then, I wanted it to be at the castle. It was going to be after Link got the sword, but quite honestly that felt so far away, and I was tired of overthinking. So I had to think about another way to go about it. I stopped thinking about the landscape of it, but the emotion. I knew I wanted it to happen soon after I wrote the first courting scene.

It then felt poetic that the place Link finally realised his feelings is also the place they make that step. It's the same place Impa and Quentin talk about his feelings for Link. It's such a cliche but these guys just write themselves sometimes.

[chromanovaa]

hump day, am i right?

[pinkiebieberpie]

[chromanovaa]

was not on my 2025 bingo card

[prescription-cactus]

what is your eye color. what is your favorite color. what is the color that appears most frequently in your wardrobe. what color is your favorite blanket. what color is your water bottle.